White Cemetery

The cemetery began with Reuben White, to whom the plaque gives only dates. White was born in 1795 in what is now Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, served in the War of 1812 in Shadrack Porter's company of Louisiana militia, and married Christina Faulk in 1818. The Catholic family came to Texas in 1824 with his widowed mother, and his league lay on the east bank of the San Jacinto. The 1837 tax roll counted 2,214 acres, two pleasure horses, 150 cattle and one clock. His widow later married Hervey Whiting and then Isaac Curtis.

What the plaque says

White Cemetery Reuben White (1795-1848), one of Stephen F. Austin's original "Old 300" colonists, acquired a Mexican land grant here in 1824. White was part of a large extended family which settled this area, later known as White Settlement. Although White's is the earliest recorded burial here, older grave sites are believed to exist. Formally set aside as the White Family Cemetery in 1850, this eventually became a community graveyard. Interred here are many area pioneers and their descendants, and veterans of conflicts from the Texas Revolution to the Vietnam War. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 7.4 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 20 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Emancipation Park — 20 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 21 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.

More markers nearby

• Harrison Barrett — 1.6 mi
• Humphrey Jackson — 2.0 mi
• Booker T. Washington High School — 2.9 mi
• Sampson Masonic Lodge No. 231 A. F. & A. M. — 2.9 mi